Digawolf

Digawolf hails from the community of Behchoko, the capital of the Tłı̨chǫ Nation, located in Canada’s Northwest Territories. His songs are often inspired by his father’s stories of life on the land, as well as his own experience of navigating two worlds.

Diga’s first artistic passions fell firmly in visual arts and cartooning. It wasn’t until he found a discarded copy of Tom Waits’s Rain Dogs that he developed a fascination with music, leading him down the journey he has been on ever since. “The North is a very small town,” he says, “you have to wear a lot of hats.” And so he is a producer, engineer, songwriter, musician, and film composer.

He has released 4 albums, all of them gaining national attention with airplay and multiple nominations for Junos, Western Canadian Awards, Canadian Folk Music Awards and Indigenous Music Awards. His latest album, Ini (Spirit) is his first entirely in his T???ch? language. With Ini, Diga aimed to bring the language to a new level through sound, building instrumentals up around the stories he tells of celebration, beauty, gratitude, and prayer — partly sung and partly spoken in his distinctive gravelly voice. These songs reflect both the struggle and the rich history in the North.